The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the SIR proteins, which are enzymes that control gene expression, genes on and off, they would become dysregulated over time and we found out that's because they were being distracted by a whole bunch of DNA instability that was accumulating in those cells.
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So when I arrived at MIT, it had just been discovered that there was a gene called SIR4 that when it was mutated, it would make the yeast cells live longer. In a fair amount of work, we figured out that the SIR proteins, which are enzymes that control gene expression, genes on and off, they would become dysregulated over time